
The dataset describes the archaeological sites and villages now partially covered by the water of the Mosul Dam Reservoir. 
The dataset offers for the first time digitized information on c.150 archaeological sites detected during a survey carried out by the Iraqi State Organization for Antiquities and Heritage in 1980 
and collected in a hand-drawn map.

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Projected Coordinate System:	WGS_1984_UTM_Zone_38N
Geographic Coordinate System:	GCS_WGS_1984
Datum: 	D_WGS_1984



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#Folder "MDS_shp"

* ESRI point shapefile of the archaeological sites detected by the Mosul Dam Reservoir Survey (MDS_sites.shp)
* ESRI polygon shapefile of the modern villages in the Mosul Dam Reservoir area, as shown on the hand-drawn map  (MDS_villages.shp)

#Folder "MDS_csv"
* csv file of the archaeological sites detected by the Mosul Dam Reservoir Survey (MDS_sites.csv)
* csv file of the modern villages in the Mosul Dam Reservoir area, as shown on the hand-drawn map (MDS_villages.csv)



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We provide below the description of the fields of the dataset files 


MDS_sites: a set of two files (.shp and associated files,.csv UTF-8)

Site_No.: Number assigned to the site by the Iraqi surveyors (as shown on the map).

Name_1: Name of the site in its original transliteration from Arabic (as shown on the map).

Name_2: Name of the site in Arabic (as shown on the map).

Dating:Periods of occupation attested (as shown on the map).
I: Palaeolithic; II: Jarmo; III: Hassuna; IV: Halaf; V: Ubaid; VI: Uruk; VII: Protoliterate
VIII: Early Dynasty; IX: Akkadian and Neo-Sumerian; X: Old Babylonian (Isin and Larsa);XI: Kassite and Old Assyrian;XII: Assyrian Empire; XIII: Chaldean (Neo-Babylonian); XIV:
Achaemenian; XV: Seleucid; XVI: Parthian; XVII: Sassanian; XVIII: Islamic.

Bank: left or right, the field determines whether the site is located on the left or right bank of the River Tigris River (added by the authors).

Excavated: yes or no, refers to whether the site has been recently excavated as part of the salvage project or not (added by the authors).

Certainty: 1=high, 2=medium or 3 =low, scale of reliability of the site’s position as shown on the map (added by the authors).

x: x coordinates/longitude of the sites (added by the authors).

y: y coordinates/latitude of the sites (added by the authors).



MDS_villages: a set of two files (.shp and associated files,.csv UTF-8)

Id:identification number assigned by the authors.

Name:Name of the village in Arabic (as shown on the map)



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